HistoryFM
The past, dramatized. Historical fiction that turns real events into gripping, character-driven stories.
Available Novels
A Republic Divided
A two-voiced historical novella in which President John Adams fights France abroad and his own traitorous Secretary of State at home, choosing peace over party and paying for it with his presidency.
12 chapters
The President's Veto
A fierce dual portrait of Andrew Jackson and Roger Taney as they wage a constitutional war to destroy the Second Bank of the United States and remake the limits of presidential power.
12 chapters
The Ash of Nations: Madison, Armstrong, and the Fall of Washington
Two men, one burning capital: President Madison and Secretary Armstrong each believe the other is responsible for the greatest military humiliation in American history.
12 chapters
The Guns at Sumter
A taut political drama of the days Lincoln and Seward spent pulling in opposite directions as the Confederacy's guns ended the last hope of peace.
12 chapters
The Barricaded Office
A dual-POV historical novel about the constitutional showdown between President Andrew Johnson and Secretary of War Edwin Stanton, whose refusal to vacate his barricaded office triggered the first presidential impeachment in American history.
2 chapters
Empire for a River
A sweeping tale of the diplomatic gamble that doubled a young nation's territory and reshaped the future of a continent.
12 chapters
The Wrath of Manifest
A two-voiced portrait of President Polk and Secretary Buchanan as they engineer, prosecute, and survive a war of conquest that doubles the American republic and lights the fuse of the Civil War.
20 chapters